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January 10, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Former CIA official wants immunity before telling House about destroying interrogation tapes

WASHINGTON AP - Attorneys for Jose Rodriguez told Congress the former CIA official won't testify about the destruction of CIA videotapes without a promise of immunity, two people close to the tapes inquiry said Wednesday.Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, ordered that the tapes, which show harsh CIA interrogation of two al-Qaida suspects, be destroyed in 2005.
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July 24, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Part III: Even my grandma hates me

"BEATRICE" IS AMAZED that after more than 20 years of schooling, including three years of law school, and several years of working at a Big Firm in a Big City, I am unable to assist her with a simple problem: Why is her Social Security check so much less than those of the other ladies at the independent living facilityIt's a valid, reasonable inquiry to the only one in the family with a law degree.
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October 21, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Gitmo Lawyer, Emory Prof Debate NSA Snooping

An Emory University Law School panel last week addressed Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance of Americans in an era of unprecedented electronic communication and data-collecting capabilities.
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May 27, 2011 | Daily Report Online

To fix health care, first try rewarding failure

Tim Harford has an unusual fear about government failure. He's not worried that the government fails too often. He's worried that it doesn't fail often enough. The British economist is the author of the compelling new book, "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure."In it, he warns that "we face a difficult challenge.
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January 19, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Workforce isn't flooded by older workers

Has the ailing economy forced older workers to delay their retirement The conventional wisdom certainly suggests so. A recent front-page story in The Washington Post was headlined: "Ranks of older workers swelling: Data show employment surged among those 55 and over since recession." The reality, though, is more complicated.
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March 25, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Suits Point to Vaccinations as Culprit

Margaret Cronin FiskSpecial to American Lawyer MediaIn the months after Joseph Alexander Counter was born in 1996, he appeared to be progressing normally. He had met all his development milestones and by the age of 20 months had a growing vocabulary, said plaintiffs' attorney Michael Waters of Dallas' Waters Kraus.
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November 17, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Chicago schools president's death ruled suicide

CHICAGO AP - An investigation into the death of Chicago's school board president will continue even though an autopsy concluded that the longtime civic leader shot himself in the head on a Chicago River embankment, police said.Chicago Board of Education President Michael Scott's body and a .380-caliber handgun were found near a riverside loading dock not far from his car about 3:15 a.
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June 08, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Firms find advertising is a tough sell

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January 08, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Plea could end lawyer's career

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July 12, 2002 | Daily Report Online

Suit Reinstated Against Emory Clinic Over Molesting Claim

Jonathan [email protected] Georgia Court of Appeals has reinstated a malicious prosecution, medical malpractice and negligence suit against an Emory Clinic physician who had accused a Fayette County couple of sexually molesting their grandchildren.The July 3 decision by Presiding Judge Marion T. Pope Jr. and Judges John R.
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